1. It was important to stay on Poseidon’s good side. Poseidon is usually moody, bad tempered, greedy, and he always gets revenge. Being the god of water, earthquakes, and horses he could cause natural and supernatural events to get revenge. One of the people Poseidon put revenge on was Odysseus. He threw ocean storms and sea monsters in Odysseus path for years because Odysseus blinded his son Polyphemus. It took Odysseus 10 years to get back.

   This is a good picture of Poseidon because he is always angry getting revenge on someone. This also shows a lot of his power as the sea God and his ability to be what he wants.

2. When Cronus, the Titan God of time and ages, was overthrown by his children they drew a lottery to decide who got which realm. He was overthrown when Zeus freed the prisoners of Tartarusto bring war on Cronus. They won and then they threw everyone back into Tartarus including Cronus. There were 6 children Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, and Zeus. The male children drew in the lottery. Hades drew the underworld, Poseidon the sea, and Zeus the heavens making him the ruler.
3. Poseidon and Apollo didn’t like how Zeus ruled so they tried to overthrow him. Zeus found out about this and punished them before they even got to it. Zeus sent them to build the wall of Troy in disguise as a mortals for a year. The King of Troy Laomedon promised to reward them but when he didn’t keep his promise Poseidon and Apollo got angry. Apollo set a plague upon the city and Poseidon sent a horrible sea monster to attack them. When Poseidon was not pleased with his revenge he then also fought against them in the Tojan war as a Greek even though Zeus told him to stay out of it.
4. Poseidon once fell in love with a beautiful sea nymph named Scylla. When Poseidon cheated on his wife Amphitrite (the goddess/queen of the sea) with Scylla, Amphitrite got angry and threw magical herbs into her bath water turning Scylla into an hideous sea-monster with six heads, three rows of teeth, and 12 feet. Scylla was put in the Straights of Messina and was made to destroy ships and take men off of them for her food. This is the monster that Odysseus had to pass by during his journey in the Odyssey.

   Even though Poseidon has a home on Mount Olympus he prefers to live in his underwater palace made of corals and gems.

5. Being the god of water, earthquakes and always being moody, Poseidon would use: his trident to strike the ground to cause earthquakes and ocean storms to get revenge on those who angered him. Poseidon once took revenge on Odysseus for years because Odysseus blinded his son.
6. King Minos of Crete asked Poseidon for a bull from the sea and promised to sacrifice it. Poseidon sent the best bull but King Minos didn’t keep his promise and kept the bull. Poseidon got angry so he got Aphrodite, the goddess of love, to make Pasiphae, the daughter of Helios the sun god and Minos’ wife, fall in love with the bull. They had a child which was half bull and the other half man called the Minotaur.
7. Poseidon once tried to get with Athena, and when he was rejected and couldn’t win physically he got angry. He then got with Medusa in Athena’s temple. Medusa was one of the gorgon daughters of the ancient sea gods Phorcys and Ceto. The Gorgons were priestesses of Athena and were sworn to honor her by staying virgins.When Medusa broke her promise in Athena’s temple Athena got angry and turned Medusa into hideous monsters with snakes for hair.
8. Poseidon also lusted for Demeter. He went after her when she was sad for loosing her daughter Persephone that was kidnapped by Hades to be the Queen of the Underworld. Trying to get away from Poseidon, Demeter turned herself into a horse. Poseidon noticed he was tricked he turned himself into an horse and raped her that way. The result was a immortal horse son named Arion.

   Poseidon is the God of horses and the seas. He sometimes likes to take the shape of a horse.

9. Poseidon was always trying to expand his domain. He and Athena both wanted to be the god/goddess over Athens. To win over the people they both gave the city a gift. Poseidon put his trident in the ground and water came out. Athena gave the people an olive tree. The water that came out of the ground was no good to the people though because of its poor quality so Athena won.
10. The signs/symbols of Poseidon are
    • trident – his preferred weapon
    • horse /stallion- he created the horse and is well known for it
    • earthquakes -he was the god of earthquakes
    • bull- some say he accidentally created it while he was making a horse
    • oceans -he is the god of oceans
    • dolphins -he is the sea god and the dolphin is a sea creature
    • sea monsters- he is the one who creates sea monsters
    • tidal waves- he controls the sea and so he had the power to make these.
    • sea shell- his palace was said to be made of shells and pearls.

This is a Poseidon coin that has Poseidon's most known symbol, the trident, on it. On one side of the coin is the head of Poseidon and the other is his trident and dolphins.

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